CVE-2025-7507

Aug. 15, 2025, 1:12 p.m.

6.4
Medium

Description

The elink – Embed Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Malicious Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.0. This is due to the plugin not restricting URLS that can be supplied through the elink shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to supply an HTML file that can be leverged to redirect users to a malicious domain.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Wordpress
  • Elink
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a wordpress elink / / / / / wordpress / /

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/elink-embed-content/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bda249f7-07a9-47ba-bba4-85abd8f8a207?source=cve

Tags

CWE-20
security@wordfence.com
2025-08-15
CVE-2025-7507

CVSS Score

6.4 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: LOW

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

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Timeline

Published: Aug. 15, 2025, 9:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 15, 2025, 1:12 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

*Disclaimer: Some vulnerabilities do not have an associated CPE. To enhance the data, we use AI to infer CPEs based on CVE details. This is an automated process and might not always be accurate.